[phist_mcgee]

Can I say an aside, it's refreshing to hear a backend developer talk about frontend as an equal partner in the picture, rather than disparaging it? A lot of HN is quite anti-frontend, especially when it involves abstractions like React or even languages like JavaScript. It's great that backend devs are looking into our side of the fence and talking about rational pros and cons.

[enumjorge]

In fact I’d say part of the problem with the front end ecosystem has been people trying to get by with shallow knowledge. Building a SPA (as opposed to a web page) is a technical and challenging problem. It’s people who blow that off who, for example, adopt Redux without understanding if they need it and then complain about the complexity in their codebase.

[phist_mcgee]

Spot on, any tool will look blunt in the inexperienced apprentice's hands.